I somehow feel that posting my system is not going to convince you of the point I was making. Let me clarify: I don’t feel that the quest for sonic bliss is necessarily linear. I think it is just as likely to be cyclic. We are all chasing the best sound reproduction we can achieve. That we can agree on. I have shelved or sold gear that I felt was either inadequate or no longer for my taste, only to circle back years later and rediscover and embrace those sonic merits that I felt I had moved past. I’m a big fan of classic gear. I feel that well designed gear from years past can hold its own with most of the components of today. At an absolute FRACTION of the price. I sometimes find myself reaching into the past to move “forward”.
The beauty of being an audiophile is that you can never be accused of being wrong. Everyone’s impressions of sound are unique and individual. Just like there is no best “style” of music, we all have opinions of what sounds good to us. You may not agree with what I think sounds best, but that doesn’t mean either one of us is right and the other is wrong. Your sonic journey may take you on a path where you never look back from where you came. My sonic journey is more of a circuitous route that intersects itself at various points along the way. I’ve read countless people on here lamenting the sale of a component that they got rid of years ago. I’m sure at the time they felt it was all in the name of progress. Would they trade what they have now for what they had? Maybe not, but the fact that they are lamenting getting rid of older gear makes me wonder how much progress has really been made.
